บท 17: All paid

"Guys," Lydia smiled as she said this. "I know you don't trust each other very much, but for the sake of our group, you need to learn to get along."

She stood with her arms folded, staring at the two of them. I didn't know what might be going through Lydia's mind at that moment, she was impassive. What had become of that sweet smile? It had disappeared as soon as the fight started.

"Lydia..."

"Nothing. He's part of the group, he's part of the family. Or are you blind? You accept Kevin and Styles, Stella's 'brothers', but you don't accept the person who has always been there for her. Yesterday you were ready for it, today you're not. What happened?"

Hypatia imitated Lydia's posture.

I had never seen them fight before, let alone over a person.

"You know perfectly well what I think of the killers, what we think," she pointed to herself and then to Lydia.

"Yeah," she made a pink bubble and popped it with her teeth. "But..."